Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.